Just an FYI for everyone, it wasn't because you made a post about merit in the past 2 days.  It was for another post in Meta that was very useful, which I found after looking through your posts.  I wasn't kidding when I said I'd be looking for good newbies to give merit to, but they have to be for good posts. 

I'm not going to be giving out merits for posts from newbies talking about the recent changes in the merit system.  I don't trust any of them not to revert to previous shitposting behavior after they get that 1 merit to carry them over the threshold to Jr. Member status.  What I've seen is a bunch of shitposters making the best posts they've ever made (or that they think they ever made) in an effort to get out of newbie hell. 

This is basically the same thing that happened back in January; it's obvious; and I hope other people don't fall for these dishonest displays of distraction from the rest of the nonsense they've shat out on the forum.  I'll be checking post histories before giving out merits at least until this Meta-fire burns itself out.